Chōkōsō no Akebono
# Chōkōsō no Akebono

Chōkōsō no Akebono (Japanese: 超高層のあけぼの, lit. 'Dawn of the Skyscraper') is a 1969 Japanese film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan. Kajima Construction, the builder of the Kasumigaseki building, was also the backer of the film. Mark Schilling of The Japan Times said that Kajima reportedly pushed 1.7 million advance tickets on its subcontractors and on ramen vendors who sold lunch to Kajima employees.

## Cast

* Ryō Ikebe as Ejiri
* Tetsurō Tanba as Kinoshita
* Isao Kimura as Saeki
* Mikijiro Hira
* Masakazu Tamura as Shimamura
* Yoshiko Sakuma as Naoko
* Nobuo Nakamura as Furukawa
* Michiyo Aratama
* Kuniko Miyake
* Tanie Kitabayashi
* Ichirō Sugai as Isobe
* Junzaburō Ban as Hoshino
* Nenji Kobayashi
* Eijirō Yanagi as Okabayashi
* Akiji Kobayashi as Komori
* Fumio Watanabe as Takemoto
* Matsumoto Hakuō I as Kawashima
* Shūji Sano as Kashima
